Kindness Quotes
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Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.
Tommy Lee Jones
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Truth mandates our highest allegiance though it should never be a barrier to kindness.
William Craig Zwick
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You,I think. I am terrified of you. Of how your kindness makes me like you in spite of myself. Of how you make me dream things I haven't dreamed in forever.
You,I think. But I don't say it.
Elizabeth Scott
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Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11.
Barack Obama
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The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of the meaning of life.
Ajahn Brahm
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It is important to reflect on the kindness of others. Every aspect of our present well-being is due to others' hard work. The buildings we live and work in, the roads we travel, the clothes we wear, and the food we eat, are all provided by others. None of them would exist but for the kindness of so many people unknown to us.
Dalai Lama
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Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.
Charlotte Bronte
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It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.
Carol Burnett
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There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.
Mother Teresa
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He who once gains such love carries the dog's life in his hand. But let him who reads note well, and remember that there is only one coin that can purchase such love, and that is kindness. The coin, too, must be genuine. Kindness merely expressed will not do, it must be felt.
R. M. Ballantyne
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The key point is kindness. With kindness one will have inner peace. Through inner peace, world peace can one day be a reality.
Dalai Lama
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In the end it is nothing other than the loving kindness with which the woman cares for her child that makes the difference. Her concern concentrates on one thing just like the Buddhist practice of concentration. She thinks of nothing but her child, which is similar to Buddhist compassion. That must be why, although she created no other causes to bring about it, she was reborn in the Brahma heaven.
Gautama Buddha
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Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.
Albert Camus
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The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
Frank Herbert
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Don't mistake kindness for weakness, baby.
Albert Collins
